https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66985

--- Comment #19 from Parameshwara Bhat <[email protected]> ---
@Eike Rathke,

I am not a programmer, but LO user. But I do understand the technology
involved, to that extent I am not a common user.

In principle, what I believe is LO or any open-source program should aim to be
better and smarter than proprietary counterparts and they need not be our
references. But to the extent these programs define the baseline, we need to
refer to them. 

If LO already has a convertToNumber Extension, will it not be possible to
enhance it and merge it with the Mainstream LO so that like in MSO, we can have
a warning when numbers and dates formatted as text are encountered ? Also, an
option in the warning menu to convert cell-content to numbers ? May be this bug
report can be changed to Enhancement Request ?

your suggestion to tell Bank to give a proper portable spreadsheet may not work
as long as MSO keeps handling this easy. Also, bank is a big corporate, it's
staff are also users of the program,they do not understand and do not
appreciate these finer points. 

Look, even jasper library,when exporting to Excel format, exports numbers
formatted as text.

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